I've been trying to get the above wifi usb working, however to no avail. I believe it should be called ra0, but ifconfig only shows eth0 and lo. I don't know if something is missing from my kernel, or I don't have the proper firmware installed or what. The steps I've taken, are enabling support for the card in the kernel. I have the ralink drivers compiled into the kernel. I've installed linux-firmware, and still nothing, I'm not sure what's wrong. I know the card is working, I just can't get it to work on Linux. Any help would be much appreciated, I'm not sure what I'm missing out on._________________"To design the perfect anti-Unix, make all file formats binary and opaque, and require heavyweight tools to read and edit them." - The Art of Unix Programming

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No, because I can't even get the ifconfig -a to recognize the interface._________________"To design the perfect anti-Unix, make all file formats binary and opaque, and require heavyweight tools to read and edit them." - The Art of Unix Programming

ifconfig -a, still only lists eth0, lo and sit0._________________"To design the perfect anti-Unix, make all file formats binary and opaque, and require heavyweight tools to read and edit them." - The Art of Unix Programming

I did not, at least I haven't checked yet. Does it matter if they are built in? I tend to prefer not to use modules._________________"To design the perfect anti-Unix, make all file formats binary and opaque, and require heavyweight tools to read and edit them." - The Art of Unix Programming

I cannot figure out why it's not working. Maybe it's a firmware issue? I tried installing net-wireless/rt2870-firmware. No luck though. Not sure if this is even the right one, I'm just trying whatever at this point._________________"To design the perfect anti-Unix, make all file formats binary and opaque, and require heavyweight tools to read and edit them." - The Art of Unix Programming

which says that crc_ccitt depends on rt2800lib.
This probably means that if you have crc_ccitt built in, its broken, as rt2800lib won't be there when it tries to start.

What does dmesg say about firmware loading?

Do you have a wlan0 in

Code:

ifconfig -a

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Lets start all over again - Your device is the same as Billwhos on the glossy packaging but its quite different internally and needs a different driver.
From your dmesg

Code:

idVendor=0b05, idProduct=17ab

Lesson 1 is always use the Vendor and Device IDs to identify your hardware. Its not always foolproof but its a lot better than vendor descriptions. Many vendors (as here) keep the same name but chnage the guts of the hardware. In a few very rare cases, the Device ID isn't changed but thats against standards compliance.

Since you know how to build things, put

Code:

idVendor=0b05, idProduct=17ab

into Google and build the driver it tells about.
It needs firmware too._________________Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

Lesson 1 is always use the Vendor and Device IDs to identify your hardware. Its not always foolproof but its a lot better than vendor descriptions. Many vendors (as here) keep the same name but chnage the guts of the hardware. In a few very rare cases, the Device ID isn't changed but thats against standards compliance.

Thank you so much! That fixed my problem, I installed the realtek drivers and then the firmware and it works properly now. I'm having trouble with wpa_supplicant, but I will open up another thread for that. Thanks again!_________________"To design the perfect anti-Unix, make all file formats binary and opaque, and require heavyweight tools to read and edit them." - The Art of Unix Programming